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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941.
SOVIET NOTE TO TEHERAN
Commended For Measured Terms
Action Based PREMIER'S TREBLE
Upon Treaty Clause
REPLY FEAT
Mr. Stokes (Lab., Ipswich) had a tilt at the Prime Minister at question time in the House of Commons the other day.
Had the Prime Minister, he asked, noticed the increasing fre- the Minister
of Defence (the Prime Minister) addressed to Departments,
answered inquiries
the three défence
and did he realise that this pro-
NEWS OF THE SOVIET and British deci-quency with which sion to deal effectively with the danger which the situation in Iran presented to both powers in their struggle against Germany was an- nounced on the radio in the fullest detail to the Russian people, says a London message.
It does not come as any surprise to in- formed observers, and the measured terms of the Soviet Note handed to the Iranian Am- They make bassador speak for themselves.
the claim that there is no question of any aggression by the Soviet which is acting en- tirely in self-defence in sending troops into Iran, and bases the action on the clause in the Soviet-Iranian Treaty.
BRITAIN'S ONE
WOMAN GENERAL
The Iranian Government had been given three separate worn- ings regarding the attitude which:
cedure did not suit the conveni- ence of hon members?
"No, I do not take that vlew," Mr. Churchill replied.
DUCHESS OF ***GLOUCESTER
of
The Duchess Gloucester will not, for the next few months, be undertak- ing any further public Reu- engagements.
.ter.
SHAH DEPENDENT
ON NAZI-INSPIRED
ADVICE
the Soviet Government would be By The Former Chief British Commissioner
obliged to take in view of the con- tinued activity in Iran of Germa agents.
From the carly part of last year there had been a steady flow of these agents through the Balkans
recent
way to Iran, and in months it became increasingly' clear that these agents have obtained considerable influence
in Trans-Caucasia)
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PERSIANS ARE APT to look inward and
and Turkey on their not outward. This reflects, too, the outlook of the present dynasty. The Shah has hardly ever gone beyond the confines of Iran, and through the commercial enter during the last 20 years has become more
and more unapproachable.
were running
prises they helping to run.
or
It is felt in London that no such
Slim, 33-year-old Mrs. Jean Knox took over con- trol of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Ser- situation could be allowed to brew in Iran as was produced in Iraq, vice branch of the army and the Soviet-British decision and promised its 50,000 nips in the bud any such possibil- members she would give them a snappier uniform.
ity.
No Designs
as
For his knowledge of foreign affairs, therefore, he has had to depend entirely upon advice and some of this may not have been altogether disinterested.
where conditions
As the British can oporate from Quetta, in Baluchistan, as well as from the Persian, Gulf, communications need not necós- sarlly depend entirely upon sea. borng traffic.
At the same time the terms of With the rank of major general
For years Iran, and to a lesser tier experience --the first and only woman to hold the Soviet Note make it very clear such rank in the army-she sits that the Soviet Union has no ter- degree, Iraq, had been the hot-are much more arduous. at a big desk in a big room in the ritorial designs on Iran. The fact bed of German intrigue, directed. and the whole of War Office. The mother of a 14-thut the British and Soviet Gov-against India
are acting in concert the Middle East, and latterly these year-old girl and wife of an R.A.F.ernments
subversive activities have also em- squadron leader, she is the young-will be welcomed in London est general in the British Army. further practical proof of their de- braced Russia.
Mrs. Knox hopes the new four-termination to act jointly in crush- paneled skirt and tailored jacketing Hitler's plans.--Reuter. she designed for her troops to re- place the old plain-cut khaki shirt and coat will coax more girls into the A.T.5. to give her army 200,000 by Christmas. jobs are cooking, secretarial, com- munications and other work in the army that women can do to relieve men, for fighting.
The A.T.S.
Its
been ranks have full of complaint about their dress on the ground, that the Women's] Auxiliary Air Force and the Wo-j men's Royal Naval Service, with their smart uniforms, have been getting all the dates.
"I maintain you have to give uniforms the smartest
women
Indian
Wheat
For Iran
Sixty thousand tons of
possible to get the best work out wheat have, already been of them," said Mrs. Knox. "A
woman is affected by the way she sent from India to Iran, looks. It she doesn't feel smart she doesn't work smartly."
Mrs. Knox succeeded 62-year-
had been controller of the A.T.S. old Dame Gwynne-Vaughan, who
since 1939.
CAIRO EXCITED
it was learried in Simla.
are
HUGE ARMS FACTORY OPENS
What is considered to be the world's largest factory making aerial bombs be- gan operations in Ellwood (Illinois) over the week- end.
A steady stream of bombs rolls off the assembly line which is a mile long.
1
Work on the factory began in November 1940 under contract calling for completion within year's time so that production has started more
than three months ahead of schedule.
Tho supervising officer is Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Gerber, who says that the plant comprises 23 square miles of buildings and magazines. The factory cost
$30,000,000.--Reuter.
THURSTON CAUGHT
Stanley Thurston, escaped convict, "the man whom no gaol can hold," was arrested in London yesterday after 152 days' Liberty.
He had no identity card, no
ration book and no gas mask.
Thurston who is aged 31, escap- ed from the grim high-walled -
prison, Dartmoor, on March 25.
where he was serving a sentence of five years' penal servitude and five
deten- years' .preventive lion passed in August, 1930, for housebreaking and larceny and for boing a habitual criminal. Dartmoor is the fifth prison from which he has escaped.. Reuters
FRANCE MADE HIM
ILL
The joint Anglo-Russian action,
It is true that distances designed to circumvent this intri gue, and to forestall any Nazi coup great, but Quetta can afford to
Concern over France is believed d'etat, will consequently be. wel- think in terms of distance as she comed throughout the Islamic has a ready and adequate supply to have caused the serious illness countries, especially as it is em-of high grade petrol practically on of the seventy-one-year-old Bis-, phasised that Iran's political inde-her own doorstep, in the oil wells hop de Boismenu, head of the pendence and territorial integrity and refineries of Northern India. Sacred Heart Mission on Yule
Island, Papua-Reuter. are not at stake.
As the Russians are said to be entering Iran from the Caucasus, it can be assured that they are marching on Tabriz which is on the direct road to Teheran, and la connected to the Baku oil centre, and to Tifils, on the Russian pil-pipeline by railway,
Rail Routes
As the British are entering from the South, it seems that General Wavell has decided to make. the most of Iran's principai rail route.
This wheat is for the people of This runs from Bandar Shahpur
-Reuter.
CREATION OF V NEW LINK IN MIDDLE EAST
NEWS OF THE ADVANCE into Iran caus-
quarrel and the whole of the Iran with whom Britain has no on the Persian Gulf to the Caspian ed great relief throughout the countries cover-
normal supplies have been ously depleted by earlier demands.
Steps are also being taken
send supplies of other commodities to Iran.
Sea at Bandar, Shah, and passes ed by the Middle East Command - who had
seri-through Teheran on its way. There Axis
this line and the Russian railways,
is no direct connection between been highly conscious of this weak link in the to but there is a short line some 70 great front which now stretches from West
essential
L
miles long which runs from Tabriz
to a point near the Turkish Africa to Singapore. It is estimated that thore Soviet Iran border, joining the
at present about 3,000 Indians in railway between the Russian
It is still not known whether the Iranian- Iran, mainly in oflfields Mashed Aron in the north-west other oil port of Baku on the Cas-
th-west Black Sen port of Batum and the forces intend to offer resistance but it is Precautionary measures, regard- ing, Iranian Consulates, in India plan Sea, Great excitement pre-will, it is expected, be taken im- Thus the Anglo-Russian nd-
Cairo as news mediately. Router.
vailed in gradually spread of the joint Anglo-Russian mili- tary action in Iran.
the
which because they belong to opposing Moslem-secta ---aro religioua oharply divided on grounds.
Unofficial observers
thought in Cairo that if resistance is offered vance at once safeguards the rail-it will not be on as large a scale as it was ways and does much to protect more than one great oil bearing Syria.
centro.
Road Problėnis
fact that Russia Is Acting apoparation with Britain make this most difficult. An advance from Iraq, shou lead to the rapid linking up the British and Russian troo
The Iranian Army is believed] to number abbut:19 divisions and is said to be well-trained; but, it It was felt that it was
is, lacking in modern equipment: first step towards strengthening
Iran's roads-mainly poor in It is reported that their air force the weak link in the chain of
consider quality will provide few difcul- consists of only 10 modern air Middle East Countries..
that operations in Iran are likely ties for mechanised and semi-craft while there are even fewer This step towards the creation
firstly, the mechanised transport, and though tanks, of German make. King Farouk'a olster, la mar- to take two forms riod to the son of the Shah of linking of British and Russian much of the terrain is mountain- Iran otherwise there la little Inforces by the shortest cut and lous; this will not.come amies to the way" of "qultural ...... rolations secondly the drive to the north General Wavell's forces, most of:
Reuter.
whom will have had Indian fron- between the two countries from Basrah.
o front stretching from Murmang southwards to the Middle Eas There is a possibility, that, the Cairo to, Basrah makes a great are Germans may try and send on Germany's east barring .......he reinforcements by air but the road-Reuter.""